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When Patti Smith performed at the Rote Fabrik in 1976, she was in the audience. What has remained in her memory ever since is one slow movement.

He was there in 1976—as music journalist, Patti Smith interviewer, and Horses fan with a signed LP. Jürg Bollinger remembers yoga in the dressing room, burning eyes, and a musical force that didn’t fit the mold of the era.

She was young, an apprentice photographer, and a regular at the Rote Fabrik. Barbara Sigg remembers a concert full of energy, tear gas in the hall, and Patti Smith’s powerful presence—a defining moment of freedom and awakening.

Patti Smith has been with her since the 1970s—first as a voice, later also in front of her camera. From Horses at Jecklin to the concert in Central Park, from teargas at the Rote Fabrik to magical moments in Zurich. Smith will turn 80 soon—perhaps the last time Baumann will photograph her.

He wasn’t at the concert, yet his trail leads right into Patti Smith’s 1976 show, which was interrupted by teargas. Hammel was one of those quiet actors without whom this turbulent time would be unthinkable.

She remembers Patti Smith’s 2010 concert at the Rote Fabrik—and a hidden path to a vantage point above it all. Years later, she would meet Patti Smith again, in an unexpected way.

Believes that he remembers Patti Smith referring to that first legendary concert from 1976 in her introduction in 2010 at the Rote Fabrik, at the very same site.

Lived in Wollishofen and worked at the Sihlpost in the 1970s. A colleague told her about the Patti Smith concert on October 12.

“I was there personally at the concert in Zurich, also got a bit of teargas in my eyes, and Patti Smith unrelentingly continued to play.”

A Bernese photographer who documented two important encounters with Patti Smith.